Sikkim

So I, I wanna kind of see how they pick up the threads of some of the things they've agreed on, starting with one is more balanced trade.

How is that going to actually translate on the ground? Are you going to see a restarting of some of these trade dialogues that you had previously? Uh, on the border, they've, they've created this, uh, this, uh, joint expert group to examine an early harvest in, in some of the sectors, in the middle sector, in the Sikkim sector of the border.

I would like to follow how that pans out.

Uh, I don't think it's, you know, anywhere near the end of that process because they have to set up the terms of reference for this group, and they have to see how that goes forward.

So some of them, they, uh, crossed the border into Nepal.

Many of the Tibetans crossed the border into Sikkim, and some of them have crossed into Bhutan.

And my parents, uh, who were from the far eastern part of Tibet, they had a very long journey, and then they decided to cross into India through Ladakh.

So growing up in Ladakh, over the decades, Ladakh has seen a sort of urbanization which is quite distinctive, but when I was born, it has barely been a decade, uh, since Ladakh opens its door to foreign visitors.

End of chapter 7.

Read by Graham Arrowsmith Chapter 8 of Sir Robert Hart, The Romance of a Great Career by Juliet Bredon This LibriVox recording is in the public domain An important mission to Hong Kong and Macau The beginning of a private band Decorations, Chinese and foreign The Sikkim-Tibet Convention Formal establishment of the post office War loans Robert Hart therefore went quietly on with his work in the customs, 1885, setting personal ambitions calmly aside and finding, let us hope, his reward in the satisfaction which the Chinese and the service generally expressed at his sacrifice of the British government's tempting offer.

The very year after it was made, an important piece of business, safely, even brilliantly concluded, added greatly to his reputation.

This was the settlement of questions relating to the simultaneous collection of duty and leaking on opium, two of the burning questions of the day in the south.

It showed three fleurs-de-lis and a four-leaved shamrock.

But it must not be imagined that Robert Hart was the man to rest on his laurels or to regard honors as so many flags of truce, entitling him to draw out, even for a time, of the battle of work.

From 1889 to 1903, he was deeply engaged in that very important business, the Sikkim-Tibet convention.

The Tibetans having crossed the border into Sikkim, a state protected by the British, the British in return sent an expedition into Tibet and, since there was trouble about the frontier, refused to go out again.